Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-01-26
NEWS CONDENSED.
TeIegraphic Summary Of lmpor.
tant Happenings at Home
and Abroad.
THE EAST.

THE Secretary Of the Interior has di-
fected the Commissioner of the General
Land Office to survey and plat, preparatory
to appraisement and sale, all the lands en-
braced in the several abandoned military
reservations which have been turned over
the custody of the Interior d, partment
under the provisions of the act Of June s,
1854. 1t is stated that these reservations
cover an area of about 100000 acres, and
include some of the choicest agricultural
lands in the several States and Territories
in which they are located. Fort Randall
"a part east of the river) and Fort RIO, in
Dakota; Fort Hartsuff, Fort Mcpherson
and Camp Sheridan, in Nehyaska, are
among the reservations embraced In the
Secretary's order.
DURING serious disturbance among
the striking coal -trimmers near Jersey City,
q Pinkerton detective assaulted an ont
slider, for which he was arrested and in
charge of constable hastened to Bergen
Point on a locomotive. A thousand ex-
cited men met the party at the depot shout
ing "lynch him." Three policemen and a
constable were being overpowered and APP
pealed to leading strikers to aid them. The
cooler headed strikers formed a body
guard about the party, and after turbu-
lent journey the Pinkerton man was lodged
in jail.
The consignees of the British steamship
Granbrook, Capt. Smith, which sailed
from Newport, England, November 80,
with 1850 tons of steel blooms for Phila-
delphia. have given her up as lost. together
with the crew, consisting of thirty men.
A NEW YORK policeman shot at an es-
Gaping prisoner and killed an innocent
man.
Fx-Gov. ST. JOHN is lecturing on pro-
hibition in Ohio.
By the collision of switch engine with
a passenger train at Ponghkeepsie, N. ",
Alexander Coats, engineer, and Barney
Morgan, fireman, were killed.
MRS VOORHEES,, wife of Senator Voor-
bees, died at their residence in Washing
ton on the 21st of acute peritonitis.
THE officials of the Canadian fisheries
department are said to look at the Ed
munds fisheries game as game of bluff,
and say it is poor return for six months
promise of the President of the United
States that fisheries commission would be
appointed at the next meeting Of Congress,
which promise was not carried out.
AN ice-gorge caused the river at Long
Sault, Ontario, 10 overflow, flooding two
cotton mills, one flour mill and number
of dwellings,. One employee of the Canada
cotton mill was drowned, aud others mar
rowly escaped, having to flee for their
lives. A large number of horses and cattle
were also drowned.
THE Free Press, of Burlington, Vt,
prints the full text of the letter written
July, 1864, by Gen. W. S. Smith to the
late Senator Foote, a small portion
which was published in The Century Mag
dziae. In the letter Gen. Smith charges
Gen. Grant with intoxication and surrep-
titiously obtaining liquor, and intimates
that Grant relieved him from the command
of the Eighteenth Corps to please Gen.
Butler and from fear that Gen. Butler
would expose his Grants intoxication.
The International Union of Bricklayers
and Masons, IT their convention in Wash
ington, D. c., adopted resolutions stating
that the organ ization did not affiliate with
Socialists, Anar hists, Communists, or
other societies opposed to supporting the
laws of the Government.
NEW YORK Socialists are raising money
10 be used in the approaching election in
Germany, for members of the Reichstag.